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WILLIAM B. B'URTNETT, `OF NEW YORK-. Y.

Letters Patent No. 106,544, dated August 23, 1870.

IMPROVED PAINT-BRUSH.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part 0f the same To all whom tt may concern Beit known that I, WILLIAMV B. BUnT'NnTT, of the cit-y, county, and State of New York, have in. vented a new and useful Improvement in Paint- Bru'shes; and I do' hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,l which will enable others' skilled `in the art to make and use the same, reference being 'had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in attaching the bristles and handles together, and consists in securing a handle, hayiug a disk on the end, ofthe size ofthe upper end ofthe ferrnle, which' is larger than the end receiving the bristles, by means` of a screw or pin passing through a conical plug driven in at the centerof the bristles, in the saine way the handles are in thecommon construction of brushesthe said disks being also. glued or cemented to the ferrules and the ends of the bristles, all as hereinafter described. The drawhig is a sectional elevation of a brush' constructed according to my improvement. l

A is the ferrnle, preferably made of sheet met-al,

- and largei` atthe end which receives the handle than v trai part.

Alter this plug is driven in, the small-end, which projects beyond thebristles, is cut off, and the bristles are dressed off even with it and as low in the fel-rule Vas it is required that the` disk 'C shall enter; then a central hole is bored in the plug, for a screw, E, or it may be a conical pin, and the handlc, previously provided with the disk, and the central hole, for the screw er pin, is inserted, and, besides being secured by the screw or piu, is glued or connected in any vsuitable or preferred way.

Tile screw is preferred to the pin, and by it thc handle may be screwed invery tight, and the parts may be tightened up from time to time, in case they become loose by the shrinking of the plug D. f

This method of fastening is preferable to the common way, for the handles are liable to work back in the direction from which they are driven in, which cannot be the case in this arrangement, where the conical plug, being held in its place by the handle, and the. latter `prevented from moving toward the plug by the conical ,ferrnle, the whole is firmly and permanenti y united.

In case a pin vis used in place of the screw E, a pin.

may be driven through the handle, and the said pin transversely above the disk C. This pin will, preferably, be made conical and driven through the plug D into lthe handle.

The upper ends of thebristles being the largest, pack into the space between the top of the-plug and the uppermost part of 'the ferrnle, so as to prevent the plug from drawing through and allowing the handle to escape that way. This is further prevented by the swelling or stretching of the ferrule from the small end toward the center, whereby the ferrule becomes thel smallest thereat, preventing theplug from being :drawn through by the handle, and the latter from The above specification of my invention 'signed by me `this 6th dav of J uly, '1870.` y

\VM. B. BURTNETT.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. MABEE, L. S. MABEE; 

